WADA TUE hack: Farah's data

Because Farah is in the very deep gray zone. What he is using is not what he would ask for a TUE. Salazar has a lot of spare controlled drugs he hands out (Cytomel) as he sees fit. Farah knows what they can afford to buy his own. Stay below the testable threshold.

Farah has experience several fainting spells. Something he is using is causing those.

Farah the Dope wrote:

Because Farah is in the very deep gray zone. What he is using is not what he would ask for a TUE. Salazar has a lot of spare controlled drugs he hands out (Cytomel) as he sees fit. Farah knows what they can afford to buy his own. Stay below the testable threshold.

Farah has experience several fainting spells. Something he is using is causing those.

Accusations and suspicions are completely irrelevant if they never turn up anything. Just look at what happened with Aden. He was caught with a bunch of chemical-filled syringes and faced virtually no repercussions.

That being said, an athlete fainting is a nonsensical reason for suspicion. Athletes down to the high school level routinely have fainting spells at competitions.

Seyta wrote:

That being said, an athlete fainting is a nonsensical reason for suspicion.

Your are incorrect.

Farah the Dope wrote:

Seyta wrote:

That being said, an athlete fainting is a nonsensical reason for suspicion.

Your are incorrect.

Definitely incorrect. High hct made higher by dehydration increases the viscosity of the blood, effectively turning it to sludge. This creates a low flow state to the brain, triggering a natural response to put the body in a supine position. That's one explanation out of potentially hundreds, however. Could be just as simple as a vasovagal response.

Further compounded by Farah sleeping in an altitude tent even at altitude. There is some reason Farah has, or need, to use an altitude tent even when he doesn't need to.

Increased viscosity flow grad wrote:

Sounds like nothing there. Why does he keep fainting though? I'm sure he's had his heart evaluated extensively, but that's the 3rd instance of that happening that we know of.

I am sure it is nothing to worry about:

In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddles. He was clinically dead. But miraculously, Salazar was back at the Nike campus coaching his runners just nine days later.

“14 Minutes is an inspirational account of a man who has fought with the Grim Reaper and won. Since he put on his first pair of running shoes, Alberto Salazar has been defying the odds. Through his memoir, people have the privilege to get to know this truly great man and walk away with a renewed appreciation for life.” ―Lance Armstrong, cancer survivor and 7-time Tour de France champion

When Farah's data is leaked and shows nothing but an old TUE for asthma or something else as lame as the other GB leaks, we will have irrefutable confirmation that Mo is beyond reproach from an ethical point of view. Truly he is the world's greatest.

USes and doesn't ask wrote:

He uses stuff but doesn't ask for permission.

Classic

Don't forget that right after that Alberto got a TUE for Androgel........oh actually he didn't.

I think the TUE for asthma is the most likely scenario - seems like you need to have medically diagnosed Asthma to compete at the highest level

Or, asthma is to elite endurance sports as concussion is to American football?

Increased viscosity flow grad wrote:

Sounds like nothing there. Why does he keep fainting though? I'm sure he's had his heart evaluated extensively, but that's the 3rd instance of that happening that we know of.

He appears to have the same fainting problem as hillary clinton. I think it's an EPO side effect. Could be wrong though.

It's the Wright of all those gold medals around his neck, keeps toppling over, poor guy.